Enterprise Risk Consultant

Who we are:

interactive investor is an award-winning investment platform that puts its customers in control of their financial future.

We’ve been helping investors for nearly 30 years. We’ve seen market highs and lows and been resilient throughout. We’re now the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, with assets under administration approaching £75 billion and over 450,000 customers.

For a simple, flat monthly fee we provide a secure home for your pensions, ISAs and investments. We offer a wide choice of over 20,000 UK and international investment options, including shares, funds, trusts and ETFs.

We also bring impartial, expert content from our award-winning financial journalists, highly engaged community of investors, and daily newsletters and insights.

What we stand for:

It’s simple … we want to help people confidently take control of their financial future, for interactive investor to go from strength to strength and be a workplace where we can all thrive. Our customer-driven approach and bold values sit at the heart of this. We are honest, straight talking and transparent with our customers and our colleagues. We are decisive and take ownership of what we say and deliver. We are ambitious and passionate and encouraged to fight for what we believe is right for our customers, our teams, ourselves and interactive investor.

Purpose of the role:

This role supports the Head of Enterprise Risk with development and maintenance of the organisation’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework ensuring it is fit for purpose, simple to understand, and that it works with and for the organization.

The role holder will develop and maintain effective business partner relationships with the business areas they are allocated to support and provide advice and oversight of activity undertaken such as identification and management of risks, controls, events, incidents, actions, business continuity plans etc.

The role holder will deliver and embed a strong risk culture across the organisation and support with developing timely and accurate risk reporting and monitoring for key business decision making committees including Executive Risk Committee and Board Risk Committee.

Requirements

Please Note: This role is a 12-month Fixed-Term Contract

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Enterprise Risk Team in fulfilling its ‘second line of defence’ responsibilities by providing effective support and challenge to ensure business wide adherence to documented policies, control standards, processes and procedures, ensuring the delivery of excellent customer experience in line with required regulatory standards

• Support with delivery and oversight of RCSAs, engaging with all levels of management to ensure that all material risks are identified, understood, correctly documented in the firm’s risk management system (‘aCCelerate’) and subject to regular review

• Provide effective oversight to ensure all material risks have a suitable and well-articulated control in aCCelerate, or where Risks cannot be treated, ensuring the Risk Acceptance process is followed appropriately

• Execute key control assurance programme with the first line of defence, with regular monitoring and oversight, to determine the effectiveness of business control design and performance, identifying areas of strength and weakness

• Support the training, development, and ongoing maintenance, of the organisation’s Risk Management system, ensuring its functionality is optimised to enable all areas of the business to use it effectively

• Develop and nurture relationships with key stakeholders including all levels of management in the business areas and processes which the role supports

• Produce and review regular monitoring MI (KRIs, KCIs, Control Dashboards etc.) to ensure stakeholders and senior management have sufficient visibility and awareness of areas of strength and weakness and can make informed management decisions as required

• Support the continued development and documenting of, and ensure continued adherence to, an end to end Risk Event process, ensuring a robust Root Cause Analysis is determined and documented and that any control failures identified have a mitigating plan in place

• Provide oversight and challenge of business continuity plans to ensure that all critical processes that support the delivery of key products and services are identified and recovered in the event of a business disruption

• Represent the Enterprise Risk function in projects and/ or business forums as a subject matter expert to identify, review and assess risks that may impact the business

• Support the delivery and embedding of a strong risk culture across the organisation, including developing and presenting training material on all relevant tenets of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework. This will include assisting in activities to support the Risk Champion Network in place across ii.

• Identify, and support with implementation of, improvement opportunities in relation to identifying, assessing, and managing risks, including appropriate escalation methods and robust risk event management from reporting to closure

• Supporting in development and creation of timely and accurate regular Risk reporting for Executive and Board Risk Committee and other forums as required

• Use the Training and Competence scheme to maintain the appropriate knowledge, skills and expertise to carry out the role competently

Personal Attributes:

STRAIGHT TALKING | MOVING WITH SPEED | OWNING THE OUTCOME

• Clear communicator
• Strong team player
• Demonstrated passion and drive for delivering the best outcome
• Moving with speed – delivering faster and better
• Decisive and take ownership of outcomes
• Not afraid to challenge and be open to challenges

Please Note: We will do our utmost efforts to respond to all applicants. However, due to the high volume of applications we're currently receiving, if you haven't been contacted within 30 days of application, please consider unsuccessful.

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